July 21, 2022

Highlight Initiative of Mayor Adams’ Financial Restoration Blueprint, Plan Consists of First-Ever Movie and Tv Business Council 

Appointment of New Deputy Commissioner for Movie Workplace in Mayor’s Workplace of Media and Leisure

Mayor Indicators Govt Order 21, Requiring Every Company to Have Movie Workplace Liaison

​NEW YORK – New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams at present introduced three key elements of his “Rebuild, Renew, Reinvent” financial restoration blueprint that can drive inclusive progress within the movie and tv sector, spend money on New York’s inventive economic system, and make sure the trade recovers past pre-COVID-19 pandemic ranges. These elements embody the introduction of the first-ever Movie and Tv Manufacturing Business Council, created to advise the metropolis’s manufacturing insurance policies and applications; the appointment of Kwame Amoaku as deputy commissioner within the Movie Workplace of the Mayor’s Workplace of Media and Leisure (MOME), to serve as principal advisor on manufacturing coverage as movie manufacturing in New York Metropolis returns to pre-pandemic ranges; and the signing of Govt Order 21, highlighting the Adams administration’s assist of the tv and movie trade.

“A robust basis of manufacturing staff calls New York Metropolis house, however sadly many noticed their jobs and their livelihoods endure throughout COVID-19 — this administration is taking motion to alter that,” stated Mayor Adams. “We vowed to assist the movie and tv trade totally recuperate, and our new Movie and Tv Manufacturing Business Council and the appointment of Kwame Amoaku as the brand new Deputy Movie Commissioner make good on our promise. New York Metropolis has some superb tales to inform, and we’re going to make it straightforward as attainable for the movie and tv trade to inform every a type of tales.”

“New York Metropolis’s movie and tv trade supported over 185,000 native jobs and accounted for greater than $82 billion in complete financial output earlier than the pandemic,” stated Deputy Mayor for Financial and Workforce Improvement Maria Torres-Springer. “The execution of those initiatives ensures this administration continues to equitably and successfully serve the wants of this trade and the larger metropolis.”

“New York Metropolis’s movie and tv trade led the restoration of our inventive economic system, demonstrating its significance to our metropolis’s cultural identification and vitality and drawing expertise, companies, and vacationers from world wide,” stated MOME Commissioner Anne del Castillo. “With the authority of Govt Order 21, the management of Deputy Movie Commissioner Kwame Amoaku, and the assist of the trade council, we will advance a holistic and coordinated method to strengthen and diversify the trade in New York Metropolis.”

“I want to thank Mayor Adams and Commissioner del Castillo for the chance to serve the movie neighborhood on this unbelievable metropolis,” stated MOME Movie Workplace Deputy Commissioner Kwame Amoaku. “I sit up for being part of the superior financial pressure that movie manufacturing represents, for not solely the studios and networks that make high quality content material right here but in addition the residents and companies of New York.”

The Movie and Tv Manufacturing Business Council can be co-chaired by Administrators Guild of America (DGA) Japanese Govt Director Neil Dudich and Govt Producer and New York Producers COVID Response Alliance Co-Chair April Taylor. The council will advise the metropolis’s manufacturing insurance policies and applications and embody the next 21 members:

• Venus Anderson – Program Director, ‘Made in NY’ Manufacturing Assistant Coaching Program at Brooklyn Workforce Improvements 
• Gina Argento – President and CEO, Broadway Phases
• Kathy Banuelos – Senior Vice President, State Authorities Affairs, Movement Image Affiliation (MPA)
• Rebecca Damon – Govt Director, New York Native, Labor Coverage and Worldwide Affairs, Display Actors Guild – American Federation of Tv and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA)
• Ryan Ferguson – Location Supervisor and DGA member
• John Ford – President and Enterprise Supervisor, Worldwide Alliance of Theatrical Stage Workers (IATSE) Native 52
• Carolyn Gershenson – Set Medic, IATSE Native 52 Officer
• Malaika Johnson – Location Scout, Teamsters Native 817 member
• Ezra Knight – New York President, SAG-AFTRA
• Dede Lea – Govt Vice President, World Public Coverage and Authorities Relations, Paramount
• Amy Lemisch – Director, Studio Affairs, Netflix
• Matt Miller – President and CEO, Affiliation of Unbiased Industrial Producers
• Flo Mitchell Brown – Chairperson, New York Manufacturing Alliance
• Tommy O’Donnell – President, Teamsters Native 817
• Santiago Quinones – Producer, DGA member
• Jay Roewe – Senior Vice President, Manufacturing, HBO
• Hal Rosenbluth – President, Kaufman Astoria Studios
• Doug Steiner – Chairman, Steiner Studios
• Vans Stevenson – Senior Advisor, World Authorities Affairs, MPA
• Veronica Sullivan – Senior Vice President and Head of World Manufacturing, Exterior Affairs and State and Native Authorities, NBCUniversal
• Canella Williams-Larrabee – Unit Manufacturing Supervisor, DGA member

“It’s an honor to be requested to assist lead a bunch of distinguished movie, tv, and industrial trade veterans to advise Mayor Eric Adams on coverage suggestions which is able to reinforce New York Metropolis’s place as a high manufacturing vacation spot on the planet,” stated Neil J. Dudich, jap govt director, DGA. “We thank Mayor Adams for his dedication to working New Yorkers and the humanities and for recognizing the movie, tv, and industrial industries as a key driver of financial progress and a supplier of high-quality union jobs with excellent compensation and advantages.”

“I’m grateful and honored to be co-chair, together with the esteemed Neil Dudich of the DGA, on this advisory committee. I commend Mayor Adams and his administration for convening such an advisory committee for the movie and tv trade comprised of native members of the manufacturing neighborhood, whose boots are on the bottom and who’re professionally and personally invested within the long-term success of the trade and this metropolis,” stated April Taylor, govt producer, co-chair, New York Producers COVID Response Alliance. “We sit up for listening and studying from one another as we create progress and alternative for the people and economic system of New York Metropolis whereas making certain the world at massive continues to see New York on the large and small screens as the colourful and particular place it really is.”

Most just lately, movie and tv trade veteran Kwame Amoaku served as director of Chicago’s Movie Workplace. Amoaku will promote New York Metropolis as a premier location for manufacturing, develop and keep relationships with key trade stakeholders, and oversee the movie allowing course of. Amoaku’s profession in movie and tv spans 30 years and consists of expertise in directing, producing, writing, cinematography, performing, and site administration. As director of the Chicago Movie Workplace, he helped develop COVID-19 protocols that allowed filming permits to be issued by June 2020 and served as a part of town’s COVID Restoration Process Power, which invested in workforce improvement and infrastructure to extend sound stage capability and revenues by 25 p.c and movie manufacturing by 125 p.c. Amoaku additionally designed and carried out a workforce improvement program for Chicago residents from underserved areas and created the Chicago Unbiased Producers Lab to offer skilled improvement and assist to Chicago’s impartial movie neighborhood.

Lastly, the administration moreover introduced the issuance of Govt Order 21, requiring every metropolis company to have a movie workplace liaison to assist the $82 billion financial impression within the metropolis and the 185,000 jobs the trade helps and contributes to the cultural identification of New York Metropolis. It will facilitate on-location manufacturing throughout the 5 boroughs, which, in flip, helps trade progress, connects New Yorkers to jobs on this rising sector, and strengthens native small companies.

At this time’s bulletins converse to the Adams administration’s ongoing dedication to spend money on studio and sound stage services throughout town and assist the continuing demand for manufacturing area. Presently, almost 1 million sq. ft of manufacturing and associated area is being newly constructed or renovated all through the 5 boroughs, together with on the ‘Made In NY’ Campus at Bush Terminal in Brooklyn. The rising demand for content material — sparked by the rise in streaming platforms — has led the variety of productions in New York Metropolis to succeed in all-time highs, each pre- and post-pandemic, with 35 productions filming on the bottom at any given time and 80 collection taking pictures in town — a 34 p.c improve in episodic manufacturing since 2014.

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